"
"I never forget it. I've no crime to repent of, and I'm afraid of nothing
in the last resort. Look, we're nearing the Island."
"It's your worst place in the constituency, and I'm not sure of your
reception. Oh, but yes, I am," she added hastily. "You always win good
feeling. No one really hates you. You're on the way to big success."
"I've had some unexpected luck. I've got Tarboe on my side. He's a member
of Barouche's party, but he's coming with me."
"Did he tell you so?" she asked with apparent interest.
"I've had a letter from him, and in it he says he is with me 'to the
knife!' That's good. Tarboe has a big hold on rivermen, and he may carry
with him some of the opposition. It was a good letter--if puzzling."
"How, puzzling?"
"He said in one part of it: 'When you come back here to play your part
you'll make it a success, the whole blessed thing.' I've no idea what he
meant by that. I don't think he wants me as a partner, and I'll give him
no chance of it. I don't want now what I could have had when Fabian left.
That's all over, Junia."
"He meant something by it; he's a very able man," she replied gravely.
"He's a huge success."
"And women love success more than all else," he remarked a little
cynically.
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